Verse 2

For they shall soone be cut downe like the grasse: and be withered euen as the greene hearbe.

Referenced Verses

• Job 14:2 : 2 He commeth vp, and is cut downe like a floure: He fleeth as it were a shadow, and neuer continueth in one state.
• Job 20:5-9 : 5 That the gladnesse of the vngodlie hath ben short, and that the ioy of hypocrites continued but the twinckling of an eye? 6 Though he be magnified vp to the heauen, so that his head reacheth vnto the cloudes: 7 Yet at a turne he perisheth for euer, insomuch that they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is he? 8 He shall vanishe as a dreame, so that he can no more be founde, and shal passe away as a vision in the night. 9 So that the eye which sawe him before, shal haue no more sight of him, and his place shall know him no more.
• Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I my selfe haue seene the vngodly in great power: and florishing lyke a greene bay tree. 36 And he vanished away, so that he could be no more seene: I sought hym, but he coulde no where be founde.
• Ps 73:17-20 : 17 Untyll I went vnto the sanctuarie of God: and vnderstood the ende of them. 18 Truely thou doest set them in slippery places: and castest them downe headlong for to be destroyed. 19 Oh howe be they brought to a destruction euen vpon a sodayne: they faynt, they consume away for very dread. 20 They be as a dreame to a man after he is once waked: O Lorde thou wylt cause their image to be dispised in the citie.
• Ps 90:5-6 : 5 Thou makest them to flowe away, they are a sleepe: they be in the morning as an hearbe that groweth. 6 In the mornyng it florisheth and groweth vp: in the euenyng it is cut downe and wythered.
• Ps 92:7 : 7 Wheras the vngodly do bud vp greene as the grasse, and wheras all workers of iniquitie do florishe: that they notwithstandyng shalbe destroyed for euer and euer.
• Ps 129:5-7 : 5 All they that beare an euyll wyll to Sion: shalbe confounded, and be made to turne backe from it. 6 They shall be as the grasse growing vpon the house toppes: whiche withereth afore that it be shot foorth to his growth. 7 Whereof the mower fylleth not his hande: neither he that byndeth vp the sheaues his armes full.
• Jas 1:10-11 : 10 Agayne, the riche, in that he is made lowe: Because as the flowre of the grasse he shall passe away. 11 For the sunne hath rysen with heate, and the grasse hath withered, and his flowre hath fallen away, & the beautie of the fashion of it hath perished: So also shall the ryche man fade away in his wayes.
• 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For all fleshe is as grasse, and all the glorie of man, is as the flowre of grasse. The grasse withereth, and the flowre falleth away: